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Inspiring
November 6, 2019

P: Lighting Effects does not work directly after upgrade macOS and Windows

  • November 6, 2019
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Photoshop: Lighting Effects does not work  directly after upgrade  in PS 21.0. macOS and Windows

Further to the last updating of PS 21.0.0, this filter does not work any more.
None of the allowing cursors of it was changed not function, it is a huge decline since PS 20.x where he worked very well on pictures 8 as well direct bits as in smartobject!

Workarund :

Priorities, performances, it is necessary to check legacy Priorities, to restart PS, to test the filter, then they will be able to come back in priority by default which is this shot hut, they restart PS and my time, to me this works now correctly.

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46 replies

Inspiring
July 29, 2021

MacOS 11.3.1, AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT, Photoshop version 22.4.3

Lighting effects don't work properly. I have spent 5 hours trying to fix it based on suggestions in this thread, nothing works. Please fix. 

Inspiring
July 19, 2021

The lighting effects are absolute crap now.  And, it will not show the guide lines so I can move, rotate, or adjust the spot light!  What is going on?!!!  PLEASE FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY!

Inspiring
July 3, 2021

Can't get lighting effects to work on my end either still.  It's like it goes ahead and just force applies a default with no way to change or adjust.   Resetting preferences does nothing.

Inspiring
June 28, 2021

I am tearing my hair out because the functionality of lighting effects has been complete rendered useless after my last update (or recently at least). I can open lighting effects but I get only a preview of a default light placed at the centre of the scene with no capacity to move it and the preview doesn't update if I select a different preset. In short, the preview is not functioning whatsoever. I tried resetting preferences after holding down the option key and clicking on reset did nothing. I have now lost all of my preferences but it did nothing to resolve this horrible bug that is depriving me of a tool that I have used for years.

Inspiring
June 16, 2021

same here. maybe time to really solve this adobe team !!

photoshop 22.4.2 / win 10 20h2 / 32 GB ram / rtx 3080 (with up to date driver)

Carlos_Oliveras
Known Participant
June 10, 2021

Not sure why this is tagged as "Solved". I'm using PS CC v22.4.2 (latest version as of today) and Win10, and Lighting effects does not work - sometimes even gives some kind of error about the GPU and not having enough VRAM (I have 6 GB on my graphics card). So, something bad must be going on with this filter.

Anyway, if memory serves me right, it's been years since this filter has been trouble free. I checked it today just because someone asked me (a friend on a mac who couldn't get the filter to work and wanted me to check if it worked for me), and I saw that it's still flawed, even on Windows. 😕😕

Inspiring
June 2, 2021

Same Here, with mac os 11.4  PS CC 21 version 22.4.1 and same problem with Windows 10 Pro PS CC21 version 22.4.1.

Why should we pay monthly for something Adobe is unable to fix ?

Would you like a class action ?

Participant
May 29, 2021

I am working on an iMac with the latest Photoshop CC but my lighting effects do not work. We pay for this thing month after month. When might we expect a fix? 

Participant
May 29, 2021

On my iMac with the latest Photoshop CC the lighting effects do not work. Any ideas when Adobe will fix this. We pay for this service month by month. 

Legend
March 27, 2020
Can you let me know if things improved for you with the 21.1.1 update?